"Identical punctuation"

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The wiki says, in the First line instructions, "Use identical capitalization and punctuation as in the hymnal." Does this extend to the spaces and hyphens introduced by the hymnal editors to make the syllables align properly with the notes? In other words, should I enter

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

or

Ho - ly, ho - ly, ho  -  ly!      Lord   God  Al  -  might - y!

? In some cases, of course, it is a matter of hymnary editor judgment whether a hyphen in a word (like "today"/"to-day") was introduced for purposes of alignment or whether it would have appeared in the text set as prose.

My personal preference would be to set texts, in this regard, as prose, i.e. to leave out the music-notation-motivated spacing and hyphens. However, the issue doesn't seem to be explicitly addressed in the instructions, and a strict-constructionist reading would require that they be, as faithfully as possible, preserved.


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You should not include the music notation motivated spacing and hyphens.